Photoshop is a pretty daunting program when you’re beginning. So this is the first in a series of articles to bring you up to speed on some of the most useful tools to you as a photographer for editing and correcting your photos. If you’ve been a Lightroom only user, and are a CC subscriber, do follow along to start your journey into Photoshop. In this article, you’ll learn how to use the Levels tool, along with Auto Levels and learn to set up Auto Levels to suit your personal preference for the tool’s response.

If you have no money at startup. My tip: GIMP. I used it and it has great features all you need for post production of your photos.

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If you want the best photo editing software in terms of features and support, Adobe Photoshop leads the pack. However, at around $70 per month for a full subscription and a steep learning curve, it is out of reach for some marketers.
Luckily, if you’re after an affordable and user-friendly photo editing tool, there are plenty of others available. Here are some of the best, budget-friendly alternatives.

Tek'it Audio has released MScontrol, a free mid-side controller utility plugin.
MScontrol offers stereo signal encoding into mid­-side signal, decoding of mid­-side signal into stereo signal, as well as an "onboard" mode to adjust the signal.
A user can use the plug-in to take control of their gain, panoramic, flip the phase, or mute the mid or side signals separately. A user can widen their sound, move it the way they want in the stereo space or enhance the mono compatibility.

The goal of Lostin70s is to develop audio plugins with vintage spirit for musicians. Plugins can be used in post-production but they are conceived for live playing to replace hardware amplifier and effects at home or in home studio. The reduction of end to end delay is the key to the pleasure of playing !
The first plugin to come is a full tube amplifier, the ToneDeluxe, more plugins are coming soon, keep online ...
All plugins have been tested under "reaper" and under "garage band" on 64bit PC

In street photography I always use auto mode. Depth of field, unsharpness, bookeh,… can be done later in post production.

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I can still hear the words I was told when I bought my first DSLR ringing in my ears just as clearly as if I heard them this morning. “You have to learn to shoot in manual mode.” When I started to get serious about photography I had no idea what aperture, shutter, or ISO meant, and thought P meant Professional. I didn’t know what I was doing at all and because everyone seemed to say so, I dove right into YouTube tutorials and online articles about how to get away from the dreaded Auto Mode setting on my camera. After all, no serious photographer would be caught dead using Automatic…right?

"Sinnah the sinner, is its sin to be free, or is its sin to sound so lush?"
Sinnah is a synth based on a single complex oscillator that includes five waveshapes with increasing spectral complexity, harmonics level for all waveshapes, noise level, and a delay matrix.
The delay matrix can have various configurations, from a "triple chorus" per voice to highly randomized resonators, or tuned relatively to the note played. The delay matrix can also do multiple slapback echoes. The feedback control of the matrix can go from zero to extremely saturated and it's modulated by its own envelope. The output of each voice is stereo via the delay matrix, which features a stereo spread knob. The main analogue modelled ADSR envelope is loopable: two, three or continuous repeats.
The envelope can modulate the waveshape selection and the harmonics level.
The synth also features a subtractive stereo filter to carve the spectrum of the sound, somehow like an equalizer, with three filters: high pass, low pass and band reject (notch) . The band reject filter also features gain and bandwidth controls.
Moreover a useful simple reverb is included.
The oscillator is antialiased and can play eight voices or mono, and features octave and fine pitch controls.
The GUI is fully drawn by vectors and resizeable, featuring an oscilloscope and peak meters. And eight colour schemes are available to fit your mood and taste. An extended ToolTip display provides information for each control at mouseover. So you don't need to read a lengthy manual to learn what a knob or a slider is for.
The preset system is crossplatform, the files use the YAML format so they are very easy to read and edit if needed. Moreover, the preset names can support the complete international character set.
Sinnah is a VA synth plugin, but instead of the standard subtractive resonant filter it uses a resonant delay network.
Hard to describe its sound by words, despite the few controls the array of possible sounds is wide and wild

If you are first and foremost a photographer and less a designer, maybe you’re used to Photoshop as it pertains to retouching in whatever genre you tend to shoot. Portrait and people shooters will likely be adept at high frequency techniques, those for fixing hair and changing color, or perhaps you’re into landscape and nature photography where you’d frequently be using all sorts of gradients, different dodging and burning methods, and maybe some compositing. It’s easy to forget that Photoshop‘s ability extends far past just photo retouching.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Remix of Little India's song. First part is from the original to compare with my mix.
To my mix:
Original sounds too sterile. I prefer more heavy sounds. My challenge is to take given material and make more out of it. Unfortunately effects on given vocals and instruments. Nice exercise to get experiences.
More of my music on SoundCloud:https://soundcloud.com/viennacc

This Valentine's Day, we've reached out to some of the biggest names in the business to share some of their secrets to a successful relationship.
The studio life can be an all-encompassing lifestyle, and the amount of stress and sheer number of hours required can often take its toll on relationships! This Valentine's Day, we've reached out to some of the biggest names in the business to share their secrets to a successful relationship.

Autodafe has released G&S Custom Work 2.0 Drum Kits for Kontakt 5 Full.
This is a new and improved version of the G&S Custom Work library that was released by Salvador Pelaez back in 2005 in various formats.

In today’s world, everyone has a camera. It may be as simple as the camera on their phones, but they still have one. This means that millions, maybe billions of people are taking photos every day. What does that mean for you? It means you have to compete with all those to make your images stand out. You have to find a way to be different, but how? The best way is to develop a style that is uniquely yours.
When people look at your work they instantly know it is yours, or someone trying to copy it. Your style is how you become known and how you make yourself stand apart.

The Nabla is a VST™2.4 software instrument for Microsoft Windows® simulating the KORG Delta DL-50 Strings Synthesizer from 1979. Is is written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Made the Video shot with a Chinese lady. Chinese ladies taste so different. Combination of video and painting. Finally I find myself in a gallery.
Made the Video shot with a Chinese lady. Chinese ladies taste different. Combination of video and painting.
It's good to feel love. So try to get it. Sounds simple, but it is so damned complicated. Well, you don't find love, love just happens. And then the challenge starts...

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

If you think winters are just for cuddling in front of fire sipping hot chocolate, think again. Some photographers spend hours in the cold making images—and not just of the dull, colorless landscape. Sometimes they indulge in a bit of self-portraiture. For Bella Kotak, a RAW frame is just a license to go wild. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how she made this almost surreal photo.

“There’s no such thing as bad lighting.”
Does this statement from an accomplished American cinematographer Michael Goi surprise you? Well, it all depends on the purpose or emotional message you want to convey. Joel Dryer uses a pretty horrific lighting setup to demonstrate that statement. And he explains that this sort of lighting can be perfect in some situations—a horror movie, for example:

Friday, March 3, 2017

One of the most popular tasks in photoshop is removing something from its background, extracting, masking, floating, whatever you choose to call it. Up until now, the quick select brush and refine edge have been the tools of choice for most of the work. If you are on CS6 or earlier versions, this is still your best choice. However, if you are on Photoshop CC, as of today, it’s a new day. The new Select and Mask space provides dramatically better results than refine edge. Watch this video and then read a bit more about it.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Regressif is an audio plugin focused on sound degradation. Combining a multimode filter with distortion, samplerate reduction and bitcrushing effects, it can turn the most innocent sound into a wall of digital noise. Two LFO modules and an additional LFO mixer can then be brought into the mix to further mutilate your audio.

Black Rooster Audio‘s guitar amp head emulation meticulously modeled after a very versatile, yet uniquely sounding low wattage amplifier the Black Rooster Audio Cypress TT-15 comes to you at an unbeatable price point: It‘s free! With its no-nonsense approach and only six intuitive controls, the Cypress TT-15 will help to get the job done right away, no matter if you‘re looking for clean through crunchy guitar tones or if you want to achieve biting, distorted lead sounds. We also included a simple 2x12 cabinet simulation that can be bypassed if you prefer other solutions or if you‘re feeding into an external power amp/cabinet stage.